Shane Dawson’s New Series Blind People

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Shane Dawson is a very popular YouTube star with over thirteen million subscribers. He has a great influence over many people. Recently, he put out a new series that had three videos all surrounding his friend Molly Burke, who is a blind motivational speaker. She fights for mental health, accessibility, and anti-bullying. She lost her sight to Retinitis Pigmentosa. She is also a YouTube star who currently has about 750,000 subscribers, and her channel surrounds her disability.

The new series he has put out has started some controversy because in one of the three part videos he put on these special goggles so that he was unable to see. Some people thought this was offensive because he can just take them off and get his sight back, but people who suffer from blindness cannot. Not only that, it became a trend to do videos about her and other blind people. Of course not everybody finds this offensive. Most of his fans and even some people without vision supported his videos saying it was good that he is spreading awareness to the blind community.

Shane Dawson hasn’t made any comments since the series went out, nor has Molly Burke. What do you think about this controversy? Should Shane Dawson be awarded or punished? Put your thoughts in the comments below.